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tendency

[ten-duhn-see] / ˈtɛn dən si /




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Kimberly Harrington is the author of “But You Seemed So Happy” and “Amateur Hour” and a columnist and regular contributor to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022

McSweeney’s, which he founded, is known for making beautiful print books and also for a humor website, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Tendency to leak: No water bottle is completely leak- or spill-proof, so we looked for the ones that were the least likely to leak.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018

Kinnock made the redundancy notices the centrepiece of his attack on the Militant Tendency at the 1985 party conference.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2014

Innumeracy and the Tendency to Personalize One important such factor is the impersonality of mathematics.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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